The present invention relates to a system and
method for interactive image-based modeling that enables a
user to quickly generate detailed 3D models With texture from
a set of calibrated 2D input images. As Will be described in
more detail beloW, in one aspect of the present invention, an
intuitive user interface is entirely based on simple interactive
2D painting operations, and does not require any technical
expertise by the user or dif?cult pre-processing of the input
images. In an embodiment, a component of the system is a
GPU-based multi-vieW stereo reconstruction scheme, Which
is implemented by an incremental reconstruction algorithm,
that runs in the background during user interaction With a 2D
image so that the user does not notice any signi?cant response
delay in generation of the corresponding modeled 3D surface.